Attack Ground, only?

[MrJoeS]

On one of the old Preschool Showdown maps, there was a corpse wagon that could attack ground, and damage pretty much anything, but could not target units/buildings/destructibles with an attack action. How can I customize units to be like this? What fields do I need to modify in the unit editor?

Thanks, anyone who can help.

 

[Bomook]

for the field "Attack x - targets allowed:" take everything off, and check only "none". For weapon type, change it to "artillery". At last, change "Attack x - Area of Effect Targets:" to attack whatever you want. Don't forget to add splash damage, btw

 

[Darg]

I would just like to take this moment to point out to everyone the additional new splash fields in the TFT editor. In addition to specifying area of effect (full/medium/small) you can now also specify the degree of damage done in these areas, through the damage factor - medium/small. So;

AOE half corresponds to damage factor - medium
AOE small corresponds to damage factor - small

These fields are multiplier values. This means that the values you enter will be multiplied by whatever your damage base/dice fields are, inside the area of effect you specify in the AOE half/small fields. So, to put it simply:

Damage done (half area) = damage base+dice value * damage factor (medium)

Damage done (small area) = damage base+dice value * damage factor (small)



In addition, there are damage spill radius and damage loss factor fields that do the following:

Damage Spill Distance/Radius - Used for Artillery (Line) weapons to hit additional units in a line behind the initial target.

Damage Loss Factor - Multiplies damage amount for each additional target hit after the first one (i.e. damage is "lost" per target).

 

[Unregistered]

Thanks Bomook! With the number of fields that might have yielded the right result for me there, and my now-limited time to spend on map-making (curse my 40 hour/week job, and DotA addiction...grrr) this was a much quicker way for me to learn.

I'm looking into making a few trigger-based spells. I'm thinking probably some things based on the Dark Conversion spell with the melee attack casting animation. If I run into trouble with this, I'll post again quick. If Dark Conversion is a pain to use, I'll go with another, and just make it short range (100 or something).

 

[MrJoeS]

yeah that unregistered user just now was me. Sorry, I forgot to log in.

 

[MrJoeS]

Trouble: it's not working. This may be my probem: I also tried to give the unit a melee attack.

The melee attack would be activated by a straight-up attack action command, while the AOE would require manual targeting. Can this be done?

It's late, and I'm not sure if I've been clear enough. Tell me if you need more info about what I'm trying to do.

 

[Darg]

hmm I'm not a hundred percent sure a unit with a melee attack can also have the attack ground attack as well. Maybe try giving it a melee attack for attack 1 and for attack 2 give it the same stats as a catapult or something and see if that works.

 

[MrJoeS]

I'm thinking that this will be too complicated. Multiple attacks seem to be best suited to air-only and ground-only moves. Maybe that's why mine won't work.

In any case, I think I'll make the unit's melee attack a spell with no mana cost. Easy enough to write, for sure, and you've already shown me how to make the spell use attack animation.

I could even base it off the Heal spell, which would allow it to be auto-cast and used over and over again without the order being re-issued. If Heal doesn't work out, I could probably jimmy the triggers to re-order the command.

 

[Slaughter]

hahahaha!

MrJoeS is me...that ancient post and Darg's reply are actually what I needed. I'm trying to make the Space Orc do Firebat-like line-splash, and I hadn't realized the importance of Damage Spill Distance.

Darg pre-empted my by two years!